Jeff Rouder

People can identify words, letters, shapes, and objects quickly and effortlessly. Although these are ostensibly simple tasks, they require tremendous perceptual and cognitive processing. Research in the Perception and Cognition Lab centers on how people process and combine new perceptual information with pre-existing knowledge such that they can reach these quick, effortless decisions about the world around them. I study memory, attention, perception, categorization, and letter recognition. Much of my research in these domains is methodological in nature.